Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Publisher

California Mission Studies Association

Abstract

From the end of the seventeenth century through the early nineteenth century, missionaries from the Jesuit, Franciscan, and Dominican orders founded numerous missions in Baja California. In this article we introduce readers in Alta California to these missions, which along with El Camino Real de las Californias, were the most important institutions used by the Spanish Crown to colonize the Pacific coast of North America.

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Copyright © 2012 California Mission Studies Association. Reprinted with permission.

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